Trottier Middle School

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Trottier Middle School is located in the town of Southborough, Massachusetts. The current principal is Linda Murdock. The longer name is P. Brent Trottier Middle School. It is named after former Southborough teacher/principal P. Brent Trottier.

This school, encompassing grades 6 through 8, is a part of the Northborough/Southborough public school system. The students normally graduate to Algonquin Regional High School. This school is ranked as one of the best public school systems in the state. This school also participated in NAPE testing in 2007 and the scores have been added to the ranking of the nation's schools.

[edit] Sports

The mascot is an upright ram, who attends all sporting events and other major school events. The two main sports are basketball and field hockey, and during the basketball season kids can be cheerleaders. There is also flag football and cross country in the fall and track and field in the spring in which many students participate. Trottier is known for having outstanding basketball programs on the boys and girls side. Both teams are currently 1-0 after going into Worcester and coming out with 2 wins. The boys game came down to wire, and it ended up being settled by a jump shot by Trottier player number 14 with 2 seconds left. This gave the Rams a 36-34 victory. The leading scorer in the game was number 33. He is a pure shooter and was hitting everything, especially from the baseline which is his favorite shot. A pivotal point was in the second half with about 6 minutes to go number 3 took a big charge that sparked the team to go on a run that would end up winning them the game. On the girls side, the game was not really close and the experienced Lady Rams won rather easily. The scoring was pretty evenly distributed with breakout performances by two of the captains in numbers 4 and 32. The next game is Monday December 17 at rival Hopkington. The trottier b had a great game that was lead by #15 the co captain and also the lead scorer. The Lady Rams B team was off to a good start with a 32-1 win over Rivers.

[edit] Drama and music

There is a drama program at the school. They put on a winter play and a spring musical every year. The dress rehearsal for the musical is performed for the fifth graders from Neary Elementary School the day before the performance to the public. The 2007-2008 play was "Peter Pan" and the musical is an abridged version of "Once on This Island", which will be being preformed on May 9th and 10th, 2008.

Students can choose as musical electives chorus, band or orchestra. There are also extracurricular bands early in the morning, like Big Band or Stage Band. Kids can also audition for central districts.